How to completely remove any trace of programs in redhat through putty

africa4444 · 07-14-2009, 01:50 PM

I have been trying for quite some time very unsuccessfully to install a replication and distribution software called R1 I have gone back and forth with their support line and I got absolutely no where.

Basically i have been trying to install from a tar.Z file I had gunzipped it and untarred it and then there is an ./install command which i have been trying to use I kept trying and kept getting wierd errors and I eventually discovered that it was because xinetd was not install I intalled it but i got the same errors
however this process worked on some of the other servers so I want to try and completely eliminate any trace that I even tried to install the program so that perhaps the install will work is there any good way to do this
I no there is a remove programs interface in windows but i dont know if there is something similar in linux I have tried the uninstall but it still doesnt help

any suggestions?

MasterC · 07-14-2009, 02:02 PM

You can check the install script to see where it places libraries and binaries and manually remove them. If the install process failed I imagine that is probably your best option?

-Chad

africa4444 · 07-14-2009, 02:09 PM

I will try that I also have an additional question which might be part of my problem
is there any way to change ownership of a file because the install files are all owned by 533 is that a problem
i would like them to be owned by root I dont know what 533 is

kirukan · 07-14-2009, 02:10 PM

#make clean
may be helpful to clean, if it exist

MasterC · 07-14-2009, 02:12 PM

If you are root, it probably doesn't matter who owns them. However, yes you can change ownership of any file (if you are root) using the chown command:
chown username:groupname filename

So, if the file were awesome.so and the user I want to own the file is root and the group was linux, I would type:
chown root:linux awesome.so

HTH

-Chad

elfoozo · 07-14-2009, 02:13 PM

533 was probably a userID on their system. chown is the command for changing ownership.

africa4444 · 07-14-2009, 02:37 PM

Well thanks for the suggestions unfortunately this idea doesnt seem to be working anyway I think i deleted all of the files but that didnt help the install and I changed root to the owner of those files and it didnt help at all either their IT cant seem to solve the problem either so I guess I'm just going to have to abandon this project if anyone knows the R1 installation really really well that might help but besides that I'm giving up